Chimney-top.



UNITED STATES VVENDELIN FAULSTICH, O'F BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TOBERNARD FAULSTICH AND FREDERICK DAAB, OF SAME PLACE.

CHIMNEY-TOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,775, dated June 27,1899.

Application filed January 3, 1899. Serial No. 700,883. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, WENDELIN FAULSTIOH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Belleville, in the county of St. Clair, State of Illinois,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chimney Tops, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a chimney-top con- :o structed to shed waterdeposited thereon,

Whether rain, melted snow, or ice, and prevent ihe same from lodging onor running down the sides or walls of a chimney, as will be hereinafterset forth.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of achimney-top embodyingmyinvention. Fig.

2 represents a vertical section thereof online- Fig. 3 represents a' topView of 0 leads to said spout D and the downwardlyprojecting portionsurrounding the exterior of the upper portion of the chimney, to whichthe top is applied. The ledge extends around the tops of the sides orwalls of the chimney, so as to allow the products of combustionto escapefrom the chimney, as usual, and the upper faces of the ledge areinclined downwardly in lateral directions and may also be I inclinedtoward the spout D,.'whereby rain or water from melted snow or icereaches said 40 'spout and is discharged by the same beyond the verticalsides of the rim, and consequently of the chimney, and so prevented fromlodging on or running down the exterior of the chimney, the same beingtrue of the interior of thechimney.

If desired, discharge-spouts may be applied to the other corners of thetop or the sides between the corners, as shown in dotted lines, so as toprovide numerous places for shedding the water instead of the singleplace shown in'full lines in the-drawings.

The corners of the rim 0 are prolonged downwardly, as at E, so that theymay embrace a number of courses of the masonry, and thus increase thedurability of the chim- -ney by preventing its spreading and openingledge, a depending rim, a spout and downward prolongations of thecorners of said ledge.

WENDE'LIN FYAULSTICH.

\Vitnesses:

W. F. KIRCHER, LoUIs KNOEBEL.

